{news} FW: USGP-INT Fwd: [usgp-nc] Steering Committee Statement on committees to the National Committee

[Amy Vas Nunes]

I would like to know how Cliff Thorton voted and what his opinion is of this? Amy IC rep
 
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:35:58 -0500
> From: estebandido at gmail.com
> To: usgp-int at gp-us.org
> Subject: USGP-INT Fwd: [usgp-nc] Steering Committee Statement on committees to the National Committee
> 
> With this, I consider the proposal to the BRPP null, void, and all
> around, a non-starter.
> 
> That brings us full circle, and the IC can now begin discussing its
> own P&Ps. Notwithstanding the circumstances of its origin, I suggest
> we take what Mike has written as a starting point. He's identified a
> number of weaknesses in the current P&Ps. I haven't had time to read
> his draft closely, but I plan to find time to do so later today, and I
> hope everyone else will, too.
> 
> Steve
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: <jdt at itol.com>
> Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:33 AM
> Subject: [usgp-nc] Steering Committee Statement on committees to the
> National Committee
> To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  Dear National Committee,
> 
>  The Steering Committee voted to affirm this statement on our call
> Sunday night.
> 
>  Jill Bussiere, co-chair, GPUS
> 
>  Article III of the GPUS Bylaws reads, in part, that "All Committees
> shall develop written rules, policies and procedure (RP&P) documents
> which must be approved by the National Committee." Consistent with
> the Key Value of Decentralization, this bylaw speaks to the idea that
> committees will develop their own internal processes.
> 
> Separately in Article III, "The Steering Committee shall be
> responsible for oversight for all committees and ensure that the NC is
> kept informed about the work of the committees." Similarly, Chapter
> 1, Section 6 of GPUS Rules empowers the Steering Committee to "make
> task assignments to committees." Read in conjunction with the
> language on committee P&P documents, the SC powers and
> responsibilities should be taken to mean that the Steering Committee
> is expected to coordinate the work of the various committees, but that
> those committees generally retain prerogatives of internal
> self-governance. If a committee becomes non-functional for whatever
> reason, it follows from the above language that the Steering Committee
> should take the lead in making such a committee functional.
> 
> Article III also directs that the various committees shall
> "participate in a biannual review of committee RP&Ps conducted by the
> BRPP [Bylaws, Rules, Policies & Procedures Committee], which shall
> report to the NC on each committee's procedures." BRPP's own P&P
> document, in turn, describes the committee's mission as including
> "periodic review of the GPUS bylaws, rules, policies and procedures;
> assist[ing] in the development and documentation of the structure and
> functioning of all GPUS committees...; [and] research, analysis,
> writing and proposing of bylaws, rules, policies and procedures at the
> request of the SC, CC [NC], and committees of the GPUS."
> 
> As part of its role in overseeing and tasking committees, the Steering
> Committee should ensure that a committee is not conducting business
> which is outside the scope of its charge. The Ballot Access Committee
> should not be writing proposals on water policy, for example.
> 
> When there is a situation where there is concern about the internal
> functioning of a particular committee, and it does not seem that that
> concern can be resolved within the committee itself, and if the
> services of the Dispute Resolution Committee are deemed not
> appropriate for handling the concern, the most prudent course of
> action is to bring the matter up with the Steering Committee, as it is
> charged with oversight and tasking of committees. If in the context
> of its regular "periodic review" BRPP finds that particular committee
> P&Ps are lacking for any reason, then the appropriate course of action
> is to present such findings to the Steering Committee (and/or the
> National Committee) and potentially request authorization to "write
> and propose bylaws, rules, policies and procedures at the request of
> the SC [or NC]." But BRPP is not empowered, either under GPUS Bylaws,
> or under its own approved P&Ps, to unilaterally work on P&Ps for
> another committee, when there has been no request from that committee,
> from the Steering Committee, or from the National Committee.
> 
> As such, it is inappropriate for BRPP to currently be working on a
> proposed set of P&Ps for the International Committee, since there has
> been no such request to do so from the International Committee, from
> the Steering Committee, or from the National Committee. It should be
> stressed that the Steering Committee has already instructed the
> International Committee to submit proposed new P&Ps to the National
> Committee in the near future. It should further be stressed that the
> Steering Committee has instructed BRPP to work on its own P&Ps before
> proceeding with any other work because of numerous concerns which have
> been raised with the disposition of BRPP P&Ps.
> 
> The Steering Committee expects that both the International Committee
> and BRPP will submit proposals for their respective P&Ps within the
> next two months, and is hopeful that in so doing many of the concerns
> which have been raised regarding each committee will be resolved in
> short order.
> 
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> 
> -- 
> Steve Herrick
> 
> Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.
> - Hobbes the tiger
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